Gallery 2025

Christmas at Pre School December 2025

We always have so much fun at Christmas, the naughty elves arrived in each class, we decorated our classes, we ate a fantastic Christmas dinner and then had a party where Santa came to visit.

December 2025

We had the pleasure of welcoming Ada the tortoise to the Pre School for a whole week. We learnt all about how we should look after her including feeding her, washing her and how to safely hold her.

Her owner came in and helped us to bath her!

Remembrance Day 2025

The children and families joined the Remembrance Service held in Walton on the Naze. Together we marched through the town, holding our wreath with pride until we reached our final destination.

We stood waiting for our name to be called, in readiness to walk forward and lay our wreath around the Cenotaph.

We are so proud of the children, their behaviours were impeccable.

Harvest Festival 2025

Todays Pre School visit to All Saints Church for a Harvest Festival Service.

Thank you all for helping with donations of packets, tins and fresh vegetables. The children enjoyed sharing their donations, carrying them carefully into church and then sitting and joining in with their Harvest service .

The children were amazing, listening, joining in and being respectful of their surroundings around them.

The children made further donations to Walton and District Food Bank, sharing their collected donations from Harvest.

Thank you to the staff and parents for helping with today’s trip

Walton Beach Trip 2025

Today staff, children and families all joined together at Walton Beach. The children enjoyed exploring with their bucket and spades collecting many interesting items: shells, crab shells and even finding a wonderful Jellyfish!.

We stood in the water listening to the sounds of the small waves, allowing them to wash over our feet. Near the shoreline at the end of the sea groin we found a large rock pool filled with shells and seaweed. The children discussed what they could see, smell and through touch they described what they could feel. Children learned by using their senses.

We finished our beach day with a cold drink and a nice ice lolly.

Walton Pre School 25 Years celebrations party

Today we celebrated our achievements over the past 25 years in business. Inviting many guests who have supported us through our journey of excellence.

Our Guests included our Pre School Chair Person, Walton Pre School Trustees, Neil Leitch OBE, CEO of The Early Years Alliance, The Royal British Legion in Walton on The Naze, Walton & District FoodBank, Peabody Services and Walton Pre School staff, children and families.

Together we joined to reflect on our educational journey as an Early Years setting in the local community. Proud of all the achievements across the years, proud of educating hundreds of children and proud of our partnership working.

Walton Pre School celebrated 25 years

Walton Pre School celebrated 25 years of being in business as an Early Years setting. Through lots of fundraising, charitable grants and very kind donations we were able to support all the staff and families to a free day at Colchester Zoo. This included special treat bags and ice creams for everyone.

Today all staff, children and families have made ever lasting memories.

June 2025

We made a bug hotel.

As the children enjoy bug hunting so much we extended the opportunities for this by building a bug hotel. The children we re asked to collect sticks, twigs, pinecones, feathers, dried leaves, flower pots in readiness for building. We recycled a boat frame and began to fill this, doesn’t it look amazing?

June 2025

Today we held a safer transport day, we learnt all about road safety and riding our bikes and scooters safely too.

We rode along the roads and encountered traffic lights, roadworks, roundabouts and pedestrian crossings, we had so much fun.

May 2025

Learning the importance of watering plants to keep them healthy, but am I just watering or learning so much more ?

May 2025

Bug hunting in the beautiful sunshine- what will we find?

May 2025

We celebrated VE day with our own red, white and blue street party after we had learnt about the importance of the day.

We made red, white and blue fruit kebabs to eat as we listened to music from the time. We joined in the National Anthem and we stood for a 2 minute silence to show our respect.

May 2025

Making the most of the sunshine in our beautiful gardens

April 2025

Our Butterflies have hatched and are ready to be let out to fly free

Easter 2025

Look at our amazing Easter bonnets made by Caterpillar & Butterfly Class. We are very proud of you.

April 2025

We had a very special visit from the Chair of the Royal British Legion ( Walton on the Naze branch) whose branch had recently held a darts and pool competition, followed by a quiz and donated 50% of the proceeds to the Pre School to support the allotment development.

We are so very grateful.

April 2025

The children are eagerly awaiting the change from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly – we have also learnt about the mathematical names of the shapes we are using

We have been feeding the local wildlife with home made feeders

Our caterpillars are growing daily

April 2025

The local wildlife are now visiting our gardens on a regular basis, we even gave them a tough tray to paddle in

April 2025

After a lot of hard work we are pleased to share our allotment area, cleared of the weeds and the brambles.

We have decided to call the allotment- Veggies and Blooms @ Walton Pre School

April 2025

We are very pleased and excited to announce the acquisition of a new piece of land next to the Pre School. We intent to clear this and create an allotment space which will provide a wonderful extension to our outdoor learning opportunities.

April 2025

Lets make an owl like the one in our favourite book

April 2025

We are focussing on patterns, repeating patterns and colours

April 2025

It’s the beginning of the growing season and we are getting prepared by ‘chitting’ our potatoes in advance of planting these in the garden

April 2025

We love science and celebrated science week with lots of fun experiments.

Sink or float

Can we make a rainbow?

Can we make the colours run from cup to cup?

Can we inflate a balloon without blowing into it?

March 2025

We are looking forward to hatching butterflies and Others day.

March 2025

We enjoyed making special biscuits for Eid to share with our families

We celebrated Ramadan and Eid and learnt all about different religions and beliefs.

March 2025

During March we attended the Nourishing our Future (NOF) conference at Anglia Ruskin University. This event culminated all the research that Early Years settings in Essex had been providing over the food practices, cooked meals, packed lunches and snack options which are available in Early Years Settings. It was informative, inspirational and we look forward to stage 2 of action.

March 2025

We have started planting seeds in preparation for our allotment planting.

We are so proud of our bulbs which we planted last year ready for Mothers and Others day.

Its Pancake Day 2025

The children enjoyed making the pancake mix and watching them cook, we all had a go at tossing a pancake and then sat down to enjoy them for our snack.

March 2025

More amazing tuff trays.

March 2025

Great fun copying what we can see through a plastic screen.

March 2025

We made rainbow clouds and worked hard on mastering pencil control to be able to write our names.

March 2025

Its time to cut the grass again!

Fantastic role play after watching our Pre School Gardener cut the grass previously.

March 2025

We took advantage of the nice weather and made bird feeders, we made sure we have our salopettes and wellington boots on before we went into Walton Woods our Forest School garden.

February 2025

We enjoy our books and stories so much, to extend this we visited our local Library in Walton

February 2025

We had a visit from Becky who works for Book Start, she read us a lovely story using puppets and actions which we could all join in with. It was great fun

Chinese New Year February 2025 - The year of the snake

The year of the snake – This year we celebrated Chinese New Year with a visit from the Colchester Chinese Culture Society who taught us a Chinese dance, some Chinese language and the meaning behind why red bags are given at New Year.

We took part under ‘Bert’ our dragon and danced under his body (sheet) which we had decorated with Chinese symbols.

February 2025

Look what we can do with a cotton wool bud?

January 2025

We also celebrated more of our favourite books, can you guess which ones ?

January 2025

Supporting our theme of nursery rhymes and favourite stories we went on a bear hunt with the children. We looked high and low and explored all the corners of the Pre School!